Photo taken while staying at the wonderful Sausage Tree Camp, Zambia. Here we are fishing on the banks of the Zambezi, one eye on the River on the lookout for Alligators, another on the lookout for Hippos, another on the lookout for Lions, another on the lookout for Elephants :)
So tonight Tourism Queenlsand launched “Passport to Shine” which is another part of the launch of Queensland, Where Australia Shines. The launch event was in London, whilst a lot of the action was in Brisbane around 930′ish PM when the site was sent live.
Passport to Shine gives facebook users the opportunity to win a cracking AU$100,000 Queensland holiday experience for themselves and nine mates. Epic.
For your chance to win and further details visit http://www.facebook.com/visitqueensland
FULL DISCLOSURE: Of course, I work at Tourism Queensland
This past week has been very exciting. It is the culmination of an incredible effort by a large number of people, yet weirdly we’ve only just begun.
I’d like to take the opportunity here to share a little about some of the work which has been undertaken to deliver this wonderful new positioning for Queensland. The new positioning is Queensland, Where Australia Shines. We believe it’s the type of positioning which can aid in pushing Queensland to the forefront of holiday makers minds the world over.
For some information about the process to develop the new positioning, a great resource has been added to the Tourism Queensland Corporate website http://www.tq.com.au/brand.
Of course there is a beautiful new “Queensland, Where Australia Shines” AV piece
More to come over the next couple of weeks.
Shine on!
Chris
Of course these thoughts are mine and not those of my employers…
Surely, in this day and age we can have electronic voting! Swipe our licences, passports or some sort of ID to then use a touchscreen system and lodge our votes…. We could then be seeing results come in through the day and by 630pm or so the result could be known. It would also cut down on the high number of informal votes. There were hundreds of thousands of informal votes were lodged and technology could be used to stop this. On the other hand, we only vote every three years or so and maybe the investment in technology, which is likely to be usurped quickly mean this is not a wise investment…. I’d think we could make the investment in a sensible way and someone should be looking at this.
Congrats to the 20 year old from Brisbane, Wyatt Roy, who looks to be off to Canberra to represent his electorate. This is a wonderful thing and great to see youth coming into our parliamentary system. To those saying he’s too young, too bad to you! He’s been elected by his electorate and he’s off to Canberra! Think about this. If we can send 20 year olds off to Afghanistan to fight, they can be part of our parliamentary system.
The big winners out of the election are the Greens and good for them! They ran a good campaign and gave the folks of Australia an option other than the Coalition & Labour. Great to see them in the lower house and capturing a big share of the vote.
Where does all this leave the NBN?! I want my fast broadband dang it!
I no longer believe in this two party preferred system and in particular it worries me that a party who gets the share of vote the Greens got and yet they still only have 1 seat in the lower house. Obviously, the Australian people feel uncomfortable in either the coalition or the Labour party being our government and it’s so close that neither of them will have a majority of any kind. I dont know the answer to this, but I don’t see the current system represents the desires of the Australian people.
I thought I heard last night that we’ve got our first indigenous member of the House of Representatives. Is that true? I would have thought surely there had been an indigenous person elected previously.
Great to see Steven Fielding gone. Tootle-loo! Shame Conroy made it through…. Shame.
The Labour party must be ruing the decision to dump Rudd. They should be anyway! Instead of blaming him for leaks and the result, how’s about acknowledging that the dumping of him is one reason for the result. Good to see KRudd get back in.
Hopefully, whatever the outcome, our politicians can put aside all the BS and sort out this mess soon and they can get on with running the country.
Photo Taken: 25th June, 2009
Photo Location: Hamilton Island, Queensland
This photo was taken at qualia, on Hamilton Island.
I love this shot because it captures a wonderful moment and a beautiful scene. The gum, with the sun setting in the background, with the waters of the Whitsundays behind it and the plunge pool in the foreground.
And soon enough we’ll be back there 
Photo Taken: 1st January, 2010
Photo Location: 8th hole, Royal Links Golf Club, Las Vegas
This photo was taken on the par 3 8th hole at the Royal Links Golf Club.
This course is modeled on many famous holes from golf courses in the United Kingdom which have hosted the British Open. The course is pretty cool and I had a very good round to boot.
http://www.royallinksgolfclub.com for the courses official site. I did not get to use the services of the “Par Mates”, maybe next time.
Photo Taken: 27th December 2009
Photo Location: Palazzo, Las Vegas
From our room in the Palazzo we could see out towards the Mountains in the distance and had a view of the Mirage, Treasure Island (including the Pirate ships in the front of the Treasure Island) and the Fashion Mall.
On the 27th we had in-room dining for breakfast and took in the view. A cracking big breakfast with a beautiful view of the Strip.
Photo Taken: 13th September 2009
Photo Location: Outback Northern Territory somewhere…
In September 2009 I went to Darwin & then toured out to Arnhem Land. This photo, with the road stretching off into the distance and seemingly never, never ending was taken somewhere on that tour…
Photo Taken: 30th October 2007
Photo Location: Beverly Centre, Los Angeles, California
In 2007 we holidayed in the USA, staying in Los Angeles around Halloween.
This photo was taken at the California Pizza Kitchen, at the Beverly Centre. According to their site, the California Pizza Kitchen (http://www.cpk.com) serves “Authentic California-style cuisine at all CPK locations. Try our innovative pizzas, distinctive pastas, salads, soups, appetizers and desserts.” According to me, they serve good, inexpensive food.
I’m not sure what was happening in this photo, but it looks like Jackson was getting a smack, which he certainly would not have been.
Photo Taken: 21st January, 2010
Photo Location: Telluride, Colorado
This photo was taken on the last night of our stay in Telluride in 2009 / 2010. The snow had started dumping down during the night before and was heavy throughout the day, resulting in a couple of feet of snow falling over the 48 hour period.
These bikes were caught in the middle of the dumping, parked in a bike rack in the centre of the town of Telluride.
Photo Taken: 26th December 2009
Photo Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Funny photo. This was taken at one of my favourite restaurants, “The Cheesecake Factory” at the Forum Shops in Las Vegas. This restaurant has “good” food and “great” cheesecakes, like every restaurant in the US, the serve sizes are massive!
Kylie and Jackson are pictured with some type of chocolate cheesecake. Sadly, I must report that after having eaten their “entrees” (mains in ‘ztraylian”) the two of them were only able to eat but a few bites, after posing with silly looks and threatening to eat the whole piece.
